Malta - Merchandise imports from high-income economies (% of total merchandise imports)

Merchandise imports from high-income economies (% of total merchandise imports) in Malta was 78.78 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 93.26 in 2000, while its lowest value was 74.20 in 2016.

Definition: Merchandise imports from high-income economies are the sum of merchandise imports by the reporting economy from high-income economies according to the World Bank classification of economies. Data are expressed as a percentage of total merchandise imports by the economy. Data are computed only if at least half of the economies in the partner country group had non-missing data.

Source: World Bank staff estimates based data from International Monetary Fund's Direction of Trade database.

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Year Value
1960 87.33
1961 82.38
1962 81.82
1963 81.90
1964 86.68
1965 86.02
1966 87.47
1967 88.92
1968 89.71
1969 90.61
1970 91.79
1971 90.67
1972 90.50
1973 88.01
1974 85.56
1975 88.61
1976 90.04
1977 90.01
1978 90.21
1979 90.38
1980 90.78
1981 91.54
1982 89.95
1983 90.63
1984 90.51
1985 89.63
1986 88.93
1987 88.34
1988 88.98
1989 87.75
1990 88.69
1991 89.16
1992 90.47
1993 91.42
1994 92.38
1995 90.68
1996 88.76
1997 92.72
1998 88.51
1999 91.96
2000 93.26
2001 91.88
2002 90.05
2003 89.18
2004 89.71
2005 92.07
2006 90.80
2007 91.20
2008 90.88
2009 90.84
2010 88.76
2011 85.00
2012 88.78
2013 85.01
2014 84.88
2015 82.97
2016 74.20
2017 78.77
2018 84.25
2019 84.39
2020 78.78

Development Relevance: Low- and middle-income economies are an increasingly important part of the global trading system. Trade between high-income economies and low- and middle-income economies has grown faster than trade between high-income economies. This increased trade benefits both producers and consumers in developing and high-income economies.

Limitations and Exceptions: Data on exports and imports are from the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) Direction of Trade database and should be broadly consistent with data from other sources, such as the United Nations Statistics Division's Commodity Trade (Comtrade) database. All high-income economies and major low- and middle-income economies report trade data to the IMF on a timely basis, covering about 85 percent of trade for recent years. Trade data for less timely reporters and for countries that do not report are estimated using reports of trading partner countries. Therefore, data on trade between developing and high-income economies should be generally complete. But trade flows between many low- and middle-income economies - particularly those in Sub-Saharan Africa - are not well recorded, and the value of trade among low- and middle-income economies may be understated.

Aggregation method: Weighted average

Periodicity: Annual

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Imports